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Recovering Your forgotten username and password

If You just installed Ubuntu and forgot what password you selected during the installation process or one of your friend gave you ubuntu computer without giving username and password.This tutorial will help you to recover username and password
1) Turn on your computer, and as soon as you the Press Esc to enter grub message, press the escape key.

2) Select the option that says (recovery mode).

3) Your PC will boot into a shell. Once you get a command prompt, type "passwd username" where the username is your username. If you can't remember your username, then you can type "ls /home" which should bring it up.

4) Enter a new password when prompted, and again when prompted again Type "shutdown -r now" to reboot your system,

That's it. You should now be able to login with your new password.

Fix Grub 21 Error in Ubuntu

Problem

I've just tried installing Ubuntu but when it restert for the first time, GRUB returns an Error 21. I know this means that it can't find the grub.conf file, but I don't know how to fix this. I used Windows XP's Recovery Console to get back into XP, but I can't access the GRUB files.

I got the “error 21″ and tried using your recovery system. One problem (I think); I get “answers. I get “(hd1,4) and (hd1,6).” I tried using the first, the second, and both. I get a screen that says, “Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. root@ubuntu:-#” with a flashing square. But the hard drive doesn’t show activity. I tried reboot, but still get the dreaded error 21. What am I doing wrong?

HELP!!! i’ve made a major boo-boo, whilst trying to remove one user to set up another, I seem to have removed all users from the webbook so I cannot get into it!!! when i tried the tip above, it told me that the directory was not found. Any ideas????

It worked! I have been trying to get into Ubuntu all day. My XP isn’t working well, even after trying the Recovery Console, so I thought I’d just give Ubuntu a try. I heard so much about how much better it is than Windows. I followed your instructions and got the username first – I had never been prompted for it, nor a password. Once I got the user name it allowed me to change the password. Thanks so much! I am now able to use it. On to discovering =)

I’ve tried using this recovery system and I get stuck on setting a new password. It doesn’t let me make a new one and the old one doesn’t work. I had to use the ls /home in order to get the username to come up and suggestions ???

I was first using ubuntu 9.10 which always ask for administrators password before i can access my windows 7 partition and i think its cool that way …. but now that i install the version 10.10 i can’t have that again and i think my windows partition is not secured …. please can anyone help me…